Johann Heinrich Eberts

Jakob Emanuel Handmann , portrait of Johann Heinrich Eberts (1759).

Johann Heinrich Eberts (* 1726 ; † 1793 ) was a Strasbourg banker , art dealer and engraver.

Johann Heinrich Eberts was a banker who traded in art and who himself dabbled as a copper engraver . He was friends with Johann Georg Wille in Paris. The Reichsstädtische Kunstakademie in Augsburg appointed him associé honoraire .

Eberts had himself portrayed by Jakob Emanuel Handmann in Bern in 1759 . In the background of the picture there are three graphics hanging on the wall: Tricoteuse Hollandoise by Johann Georg Wille after Frans van Mieris , Le pucelage by Eberts after a drawing by Willes and Jeanette after François Boucher , also engraved by Eberts. Wille and Eberts dedicated the first two sheets to each other.

literature

E. Dacier: Bulletin de la Société de l'Histoire de l'Art Français 1950, pp. 167-176.
Georg Kaspar Nagler: New general artist lexicon , Vol. 4, Munich 1837, p. 65 online
Philippe Kaenel and Rolf Reichardt: The European Print and cultural transfer in the 18th and 19th centuries , Hildesheim 2007, pp. 119–144.
Manuel Kehrli: Portrait of a gentleman in an elegant interior. Emanuel Handmann's portrait of a "homme de lettres" from 1759 in the Bernisches Historisches Museum , in: Der Kleine Bund No. 146 (2000), p. 3. online (PDF; 296 kB)

Individual evidence

↑ Dedication on the sheet Tricoteuse Hollandoise by Johann Georg Wille after Frans van Mieris.
↑ Copy in the Virtual Kupferstichkabinett.
^ Copy in the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco.

personal data
SURNAME	Eberts, Johann Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Eberts, Jean Henri
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Banker, art dealer and engraver
DATE OF BIRTH	1726
DATE OF DEATH	1793

[1] Dedication on the sheet Tricoteuse Hollandoise by Johann Georg Wille after Frans van Mieris.

[2] Copy in the Virtual Kupferstichkabinett.

[3] Copy in the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco.